Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Mobile Adhoc Networks

The aim of this paper is to explore the security issues that significantly affect the performance of Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET)and limit the services provided to their intended users. The MANETs are more vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) because of their properties like shared medium, dynamic topologies etc. A DDoS attack is a coordinated attempt made by malicious users to flood the victim network with the large amount of data such that the resources of the victim network are exhausted resulting in the deterioration of the network performance. This paper highlights the effects of different types of DDoS attacks in MANETs and categorizes them according to their behavior.

Authors:

• Gurjinder Kaur
• Yogesh Chaba
• V. K. Jain

Keywords:

• Distributed Denial
• Mobile Adhoc Networks

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